The Dutch government is looking for ways to bypass the court’s ban on delivering parts for F-35 fighter jets to Israel, NOS reports based on internal documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Last month, the Court of Appeals in The Hague ruled that the Dutch State must stop “any (actual) export and transit of F-35 parts with final destination Israel.” According to the court, there is a real risk of Israel using those fighter jets, kept up and running with parts delivered by the Netherlands, to commit serious violations of humanitarian law of war in the Gaza Strip.
The State went into cassation against the ruling but has to adhere to it until the next ruling. The government is looking for ways around that, NOS found. The Ministry of Defense has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to have its diplomats think of alternative ways to get F-35 parts to Israel by sending them from other countries and not the Netherlands.
Totally, especially since the Netherlands currently has a dimissionary cabinet. So the ministers are expected only to mind the store. Though I would be surprised Geert Wilders’ PVV (the future expected governing party) to be against this, since he’s always hinted at a “Jewish-Christian Tradition” of the Netherlands.
Geert Wilders was an israeli colonist in the West Bank from 17 to 19 years old. He will support israel in every human rights violation possible.
December 6, 2010 - Wilders urges Israel to build more West Bank settlements
I did not know that, so TIL. Apart from that, I would like someone to hold Kajsa Olongren accountable for asking how to by-pass the ban.